On Oct 31, 2005, at 18:56, suzy wrote:
on the same website i found the horseshoe there also were some little rolls that looked like rolling pins to roll your continuous lace on and then one pin hole on each end to pin it to where your lace pricking begins. i thought that was really cute and only a few dollars.
Take a scrap of fabric, ca 10"x3". Hem both short ends. Sew the two long ends (right side to right side) to make a tube, turn to the right side. Close one end of the tube, ca 1" away from the hemmed edge. Stuff fairly firmly to about 1" away from the other end of the tube, and close that end of the tube. Anything can serve as stuffing - cotton wool, batting, thread ends, hair, cut up panty gose - whatever happens to be handy.
You end up with a cross between a hot dog and a piece of candy, which you pin to the pillow through the unstuffed ends of the tube. I've been making those rolls for years (even though I don't make much continuous lace). True, they're not as pretty as some of the wooden ones, but... They're even cheaper than the wooden ones, and I can colour-coordinate them to my pillow cover. They're more flexible than the wooden ones, which means that you can bend them slightly, if you don't have enough space (or you can pin through the "sausage", but that's not as easy). And I think that the lace rolled onto them gets les stress than lace rolled onto a hard dowel-like contraption.
Yours, on Halloween night in Lexington, where I bought lots of candy and had only 7 visitors in 2 hours (4 of whom wore identical costumes - must have been a special at WalMart <g>)> Thankfully, I only bought candy that I know DH and I will dispose of with pleasure :)
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